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Wyoming

a Story of the Outdoor West

By William MacLeod Raine


CHAPTER I.
A DESERT MEETING

An automobile shot out from a gash in the hills and slipped swiftly down to thebutte. Here it came to a halt on the white, dusty road, while its occupantgazed with eager, unsated eyes on the great panorama that stretched before her.The earth rolled in waves like a mighty sea to the distant horizon line. From awonderful blue sky poured down upon the land a bath of sunbeat. The air waslike wine, pure and strong, and above the desert swam the rare, untemperedlight of Wyoming. Surely here was a peace primeval, a silence unbroken sincethe birth of creation.

It was all new to her, and wonderfully exhilarating. The infinite roll ofplain, the distant shining mountains, the multitudinous voices of the desertdrowned in a sunlit sea of space—they were all details of the situationthat ministered to a large serenity.

And while she breathed deeply the satisfaction of it, an exploding rifle echoshattered the stillness. With excited sputtering came the prompt answer of afusillade. She was new to the West; but some instinct stronger than reason toldthe girl that here was no p

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